Being fit may make you look and feel great — and it could ward off future health risks like high blood pressure.

If you can fight fire with fire, why not fight addiction to nicotine with another chemical?

Lowering your risk for health problems like diabetes and heart disease through diet may be simpler than once thought. Patients may need to simply focus on eating healthy, natural foods in general, rather than worrying about how healthy foods affect factors like blood sugar.

Women who had their first period earlier or later than average may want to keep a close eye on their heart health and take action to lower their heart disease risk.

Health problems that seem unrelated to men's fertility — like diabetes or high blood pressure — may damage men's sperm. And men can take steps that can both improve their overall health and make them more fertile.

Salt may be a little less sinister for patients with high blood pressure than once thought. And sugar may steal salt's spot on the list of blood pressure spikers.

As more children become obese, related health problems like nonalcoholic fatty liver disease may be putting their health at risk.

A blood pressure medication once considered a threat to women's health may not be as bad as researchers thought.

A bad marriage can be a real heartbreaker. That’s the message from a new study that looked at how marriage affects the development of heart disease over time.

Instead of the old adage about an apple a day, many doctors advise their patients to take an aspirin a day to prevent heart attacks. Which may be good advice. But new research suggests that aspirin may not keep patients from dying of a heart attack.